Source: Belief: Readings on the Reason for Faith
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
Source: Sylvie and Bruno (1889), Chapter 25 : Looking Eastward
“The Catholic writer really needs only three things to succeed: faith, hope and ingenuity”
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Essays, Can Poetry Matter? (1991), The Catholic Writer Today (2013)
“His clothes are dirty, but his hands are clean, and you're the best thing that he's ever seen.”
Song lyrics, Nashville Skyline (1969), Lay Lady Lay
Variant: We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things which are not seen are eternal.
Source: A Wrinkle in Time
"Mind and Motive"
Winterslow: Essays and Characters (1850)
2004, Democratic National Convention speech (July 2004)
Context: In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope? I'm not talking about blind optimism here... No, I'm talking about something more substantial. It's the hope of slaves sitting around a fire singing freedom songs; the hope of immigrants setting out for distant shores; the hope of a young naval lieutenant bravely patrolling the Mekong Delta; the hope of a millworker's son who dares to defy the odds; the hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too. Hope in the face of difficulty, hope in the face of uncertainty, the audacity of hope: In the end, that is God's greatest gift to us, the bedrock of this nation, a belief in things not seen, a belief that there are better days ahead.
